The Nation: How to Win Like Elizabeth Warren A field guide for the Democratic Party (op-ed)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.thenation.com/article/190865/how-rock-elizabeth-warren



Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)


(PCCC co-founder) Stephanie Taylor November 19, 2014

From the rubble of the 2014 election, a conversation has started about the future of the Democratic Party. Senator Elizabeth Warren is central to that conversation.

This week, we learned that Warren will be joining the Senate Democratic leadership as strategic policy adviser to the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee. In this role — created specifically for her — she will help craft the party’s policies and priorities as well as serve as a liaison to progressive groups.

While there is some skepticism about the idea of a "liaison" to base Democratic voters, there is largely agreement that it is a good thing for the Democratic Party to follow her political footsteps. After all, she's adored by big swaths of the Democratic electorate and the public at large. On the campaign trail this fall, she was welcomed with open arms in Kentucky, West Virginia, Michigan, and other reddish-purple states, drawing overflow crowds cheering on her message of tougher Wall Street regulation and kinder policies for working people.

But what is it that works about her? What is her special sauce? Other Democratic and progressive candidates ask me all the time how they can capture the intangible "it," that Warren magic. Below, I've dissected her tactics and her policies, which are one and the same, to help candidates better understand how to tread her path.

FULL story at link. Seems the conservative blogs are jumping all over this. HHHMMMM.

[MannyGoldstein]

1. Her special sauce?

She wants to improve the lot of the 99%, and she's willing to fight. Almost no other national Democrat possesses either ingredient.